My Musings

Been reading lately, got hold of 2 really interesting books. Both by the same author - Chandramouli Venkatesan. The first one is "The Catalyst" - this talks about how to add value to everything we do by consciously identifying a "catalyst". The idea is not to take for granted that spending time and effort over any activity or task will actually help us "grow". It is a common misnomer that if we put in "time" and "effort" at anything, we would automatically "grow". However, it was insightful to read that it is not always the case, we need to identify a "catalyst" that will make us be deliberate in our intent to make sure that we are adding value to the activity / task and ourselves. The second one which I am still in the process of reading is "Get Better at getting better". Now, this is a very interesting take on how we can develop a model (aptly called the GBM - Get Better Model by the author) t...

Its been quite a while and I am finally here! Like the old saying goes "Better late than never!" Okay, so the first blog is to set the agenda and theme for researching a particular topic and post stuff about my findings which might be useful for others and serve as a reference for myself. Few topics that I am interested in and would like to explore them in a lot more detail: Omni-channel Architecture Why is this needed? - Use cases Business Case - can we quantify benefits as a $ amount ? Capabilities - functional feature set Architecture Views Conceptual Logical Technology Indicative Roadmap Indicative Costs & Timeline Products & Platforms shaping modern application development How platforms that provide different levels of "as a service" are evolving and how this is changing the fundamentals of how application development is done Examples are cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) This is...